Discover Finland's Finest Music At King's Place

Take your ears to King's Place for some aural exploration, Finnish style, at the London International Festival of Exploratory Music (LIFEM).

Some of Finland's finest traditional and contemporary folk, folk-rock, progressive jazz, acid jazz, avant-garde jazz, and electronic music will be explored over four days. Knowing nothing about Finnish music at all, we looked into the line-up and had a listen.

Värttinä contemporary folk music group are celebrating 30 years in 2013. Hailing from the Karelia region of Finland and drawing on women's vocal traditions and ancient poems known as runos, they've been around in various incarnations, like a Finnish folk Sugababes, since 1973. Listen to this - we think they're irresistible:

Alamaailman Vasarat translates as Hammers of the Underground and their music is tricky to describe but we'll have a go. Sort of klezmer-crazy, oompah, folky, heavy metal circus. Sort of. Watch this and imagine it live: